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  • If I had advice to give my younger self, I’d have to be very careful about the whole causality problem. At 45 I have two awesome kids aged 5 and 2. I have an amazing wife who multiplies both my happiness and ability to make a living. Both my wife and I were previously divorced. I wouldn’t change anything that might prevent me from meeting her and helping to bring my kids into the world.

    If I had perfect temporal guardrails that would ensure this family path, I’d tell my younger self that it works out pretty well in the long run, but huge mistakes were needed to forge me into who I am today. Also, buy Nvidia stock.












  • His highness’s dignity permeated the room. Children gawked, men bowed, and women swooned. A certain radiance seemed to eminate from the feline king. That is, until he spoke: “gweetings my subjects! I am yo lod and wuler! May my beneficence wain down upon you.”

    In that instant, the spell was broken. Awe was replaced by a communal urge to chant “pss,pss,pss” and to try to rub the erstwhile monarch.







  • If I go to Starbucks and order a medium anything and am “corrected” by the cashier that it’s a “grande” I will stare at the offender until they feel uncomfortable.

    If I go to Coldstone Creamery and order a medium anything and they aggressively say “oh, you want a ‘love it’,” I will tell them no, I want a fucking medium. You don’t get to tell me how much I might or might not like it in advance.

    Also I hate when Dairy Queen insists that you watch them flip the fucking Blizzard upsidedown. I don’t want your meager marketing trick. I want the bad ice cream with candy in it.


  • Lawyerator@lemmy.worldtoADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com33 actually
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    10 months ago

    44 here. Technically I was diagnosed with “ADD” (the H was added later) back in 1988 or so. My parents were of the mind that kids in general have a lot of energy and little attention and kept me off of Ritalin as a result.

    Ya know what? I get the sense that this supposed malady is being diagnosed in sufficient numbers that it’s just the standard state of a huge percentage of humanity. Frankly, I don’t think we evolved to squat in cubicles and stare at screens all day long.

    Hypothesis here: Unnaturally focused attention is an unhealthy mutation that only benefits those who exploit them.